Graphics Card for Oblivion

Hello I need to know from some pc experts to know if a Geforce 6200 PCI can run obvilion. My brother really wants to play it on his computer but all he has is a geforce 5200, 1GB of ddr memory, Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz. It cannot play oblivion, it loads it, but it's unplayable.

The Geforce 6200 pci is the most powerful card I could find that would go on his motherboard, he's willing to upgrade his ram too, but he can't upgrade anything but the graphics card and ram. He just wants oblivion to run well. His computer is 2 yrs old, but it's definitly not for gaming. He's kinda pissed how I have a Alienware that can run it on high, well his computer can barely run warcraft.

Would the 6200 be able to run oblvion on low settings at least. We can't share my computer, as I need it, and he really wants it on his.

it should my 6800 did on high

soooo low medium sure. Have fun playing it, tell him to join the darkbrotherhood.

Alright, it's pci only so I hope that won't kill performancesilversurfergold

[QUOTE="silversurfergold"]Alright, it's pci only so I hope that won't kill performanceLouieV13

so the X1550 PCI is better then the 6200, will it run oblvion, graphics don't matter for him, just to play it. silversurfergold

It wont be enjoyable to play on that card!jking197

Oblivion is a very demanding game, and the only 6200 that ever worked well with it, was the very earliest one, in PCIe(16), that shared cores with the vanilla 6600, and had a 128 bit memory system. The AGP versions all have some sort of serious internal defect that shows up trying to play this game, and to an even greater extent, in NWN2. The plain PCI version is much worse in every way, but particularly is terrible for being very, VERY slow out of doors.

Plain PCI, quite frankly, is an extremely shallow bandwidth bus that cannot come close to providing a playable experience in most any modern Dx9.b or Dx9.c game. And there is no fix, short of disposing of the cheap no-videobus mainboard. There is some argument about whether any X1300 other than the "XT" (renamed X1600 Pro) offers a possibility of a playable game either, so the X1550 is part of that, since it is a basically renamed X1300 vanilla card that did get some performance improvement, but still falls short of the X1300 Pro level.

So what your telling me is that I have to search for him a new motherboard for a agp slot, because I doubt I'll find pci express for his case and processor, but we really just wanted to keep it simple. silversurfergold

if you want it simple then fine, two words: New Computer!

So what your telling me is that I have to search for him a new motherboard for a agp slot, because I doubt I'll find pci express for his case and processor, but we really just wanted to keep it simple. silversurfergold

Pretty much any PCI card will choke with Oblivion.

What's your brother's budget? You could go for broke and build an uber budget system.

So what your telling me is that I have to search for him a new motherboard for a agp slot, because I doubt I'll find pci express for his case and processor, but we really just wanted to keep it simple. silversurfergold

Depending on the CPU, Asrock has designed several "dual" mainboards that make the upgrades more palatable. They started with a "Dual SATA II" for folks with an s939 AMD CPU, that accepts AGP video cards, and also has a real PCI-e(16) video slot.

That MB has a special slot in which you can place a special riser add-on board for an AM2 CPU and the DDR2 RAM to go with it. Their next one is the VSTA Dual, also for AMD. Then, they did something similar for the Intel Fan Crowd (also named VSTA something), and the first two have been very good, even excellent, for gamers. Compared to those the Intel offerings are apparently somewhat less of a big winner situation, but they do work quite well anyway.